Nkechi, short for Nkechinyere, comes from the Igbo word for "what God has given" or "gift of God" in Nigeria.

Diallo, which has African origins, means "bold."

Dolezal tweeted Wednesday afternoon that "the story behind my name change will be in my book."

A Change.org petition posted four months ago under the name Nkechi Diallo urged TED Talks to post her April 2016 presentation online.

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The page makes no mention that Dolezal and Diallo are the same woman. Thirty-two people signed the petition, and TED Talks commented on Monday that her speech had been available on their website since November.

Dolezal stepped down in June 2015 from her role in the Spokane NAACP chapter after her birth parents revealed that she is white.

She claims her only job offers have come from reality television and porn.

"Right now the only place I feel understood and completely accepted is with my kids and my sister," said the natural blonde, who is living on food stamps and claims she can't afford her rent.

Dolezal, who stepped down from the local Spokane NAACP chapter, claims she hasn’t been able to find work since then, despite applying for more than 100 jobs. (Tyler Tjomsland/AP)

"The narrative was that I'd offended both communities in an unforgivable way, so anybody who gave me a dime would be contributing to wrong and oppression and bad things. To a liar and fraud and a con," she told The Guardian.

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Her memoir, "In Full Color," is due out in March.

Dolezal also insisted she has no intention of apologizing for her actions.

"I'm not going to stoop and apologize and grovel and feel bad about it. I would just be going back to when I was little, and had to be what everybody else told me I should be — to make them happy," she told The Guardian.

"The times that I tried to explain more, I wasn't understood more. Nobody wanted to hear, 'I'm pan-African, pro-black, bisexual, an artist, mother and educator.' People would just be like, 'Huh? What? What are you talking about?' So I felt like by not talking about my biological ancestry, I gave people the opportunity to relate to me as an individual, not part of a group."